The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-09-21
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
itemx OF Intereat Gathered from Iev!ons
Quarters.

is to be believed, he has conquered the secret
of aerial navigation. His machine is sid
to be 200 feet long. and to rbviatc Il tie
tcayal of his secret he had the apparatus
constructed in different paris OF Europe.
Three soldiers at Tr&paIc. I.alT. while
performing disiAfcGting duty, were aSSaied
bv mob One WAS forced TO swallow the
carbolic acid they We're using and died from
the effects, and the other lwo wsfc Killed
because they refused to drink it.
A small filihusterins expedition from
Kew West and islands in that vicinity has
landed in Cuba and defeated Il party of 300
Spanish soldiers near ,iatanZas. Another
Virginius affair may be locked for, and
then deal of government buster.
The Chattanooga, Tenn, IImSs reports
that the white. r,St-proof iron ore. hitherto
found only in Sweden has been discovered
in the mountains near that CITY. The ore
is said to contain So per cent Of pure iron.
while the bed is six feet thick and Of great
extent.
The Rio Grandc River is over;lowing It's
banks and inundating large sections OF
Texas. The little town Of Edjrhurg, thirty
miles above Brownsville, is threatened with
complete destruction \ number OF houses
have been moved away to escape the 1iTcr.
At town near Chicago while funeral
procession was or its way TO The cemetery,
picnicking party Of four women and tc.o
men was near the roadside tif;ng at q target
4 bullet from rifle struck one CT the lady
mourners, killing her instantly. The target
| shooters were einloXicated.
Intense excitement still prevails in Ire
land over the Mitchelstown affair. La
| b0uchere and others addressed an in1igna-
| ton meeting at Cotk and Michael Gavlit
spoke at Dublin. O'Briea was arrested for
refusing to pledge himself not to go to
England, but was released next day
The murder Of Constable Whelan. by
the moonlightcrs last night in house near
Ennis, is most fortunate occurrence for
the government, coming as il does directly
in the wake of the Mitchelston affair when
the ministry is at their wits end to give
some reasonable explanation Of the unfor
tunate atIray.
At Ballypooren, Tipperary, Iraland,
Sunday, a riot occurred in public house,
and the police used their batons freely on
the rioters The latter, after Il tussle, COM
PEELED the police to retreat to their barracks.
from which g few shots Were fired at the
crowd No one was injured, however.
Several rioters were arrested.
Governor Foraker, in his speech at Cald-
we'll Ohio, said he had not, as alleged,
compared President Cleveland TO a whipped
spaniel He had too much respect for a
dog to make such comparison. The cor
respondent says this remark was checred,
and that afterward there were three cheers
given for Foraker and three for the dog.
Eighteen barrels of new Louisiana mo-
lasses, the first of the season, were received
yesterday at New Orleans from St. John
| Baptiste parish, classed choice ItWas sold
at 80 cents per gallon. This is the earliest
receipt Of molasses ever known. Seven
| hogsheads of sugar were made from the
run, producing the molasses above mcr-
toned
The statement just prepared at the gen
eral land office shows that the quantity Of
land restored 10 the public domain by the
action of the interior department under the
policy of President Cleveland is 81 900. .0G0
acres. This great territory is sufficient TO
| furnish 130, 0G0 settlers with farms Of l6Q
acres each. This is genuine land reform,
a common sense and honest enforcement
of the doctrine: The peoples land foI
the people.
The miners of the collicrics OF the Nine
| raj Railroad Company, the Union Coal
| Company, the Excelsior Coal Company,
the Enterprise Coal Company and the Gar
field Coal Company, at Shamollin Pa.
! ctr F.
estimated that 40, 900 men are out Cn L
strike The miners aTe thoroughly crgan-
lied as Knights Of Labor and are prepared
for long lockout No concessions were
offered on either side.
Washington is the best shaded city in the
world At present there are 63, 900 shade
trees in its streets, most of them III a
flourisbing condition. OF this number 23,-
305 are soft or white naples, S:i2 sugar and
black or Southern NAPLES, 2,7e6 Norway
naples, S64 scarlet or red, 422 sycamores,
4 ,0l3 ash-leavcd naples, 5,l2l American
lindenS, 1850 Carolina poplars, $3.50
! American elms, European elmS and mixed
elms, =,5,9 sycamores, or butte wood, and
| European plane trees &c.
Advices from China are to he effect that
at most of the scientific stations whence the
totality Of the eclipse Of the sun August
10Th could be viewed, the result was very
unsatis factory, more especially at Shire
kawa, where the United States expedition
under the direction of Professor Todd vas
| located Twenty minutes after the eclipse
began, the sun was hidden by :he CLOUDS
and remained hidden during Tie total
eclipse. It was Ike dark night, and the
face of man Standing at distance OF three
or four feet could not be seen.
There has not been bank failure in
! China for nine hundred years. according to
The London Telegraph The reason fo-
this sound fiGanciering in the Flowery
Kingdom has escaped our learned British
contemporary During Tie reign Of the
wise Emperor Iii Flung an edict was Issued
that upon the failure of 8 bank the heads
of the president, cashier and directors
| sko1,ld be struck off and piled up in corner
With the otneF aSsrts This simple but
earnest edict has never been repeated. and
| the Chinese bank has continued TO be above
both par and reproach.
The Hendricks monumcntto be set up at
Indianapolis will be thirty TWO feet high,
and will cost $2j 000 1t will De composed
Of led granite and brorze. Three steps
will Lad to tie arst basc ca which viii be
seated a figure representing history. Rising
from the fist base, which is square, is ;In-
| other base with corners Of columns mcuatcd
on the caps with oronze orramcntatiOn,
and rising from that is another base on
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